Biden to DC Youths: Romney’s Going After Granny’s Medicare

Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 5:23 PM

When you can’t run on your record you fear monger.
Joe Biden told a crowd of young people that Mitt Romney is going after their grandparent’s Medicare and Medicaid… And he’s going to throw sick children under the bus.The Politico reported, via Weasel Zippers:

Vice President Joe Biden rallied a standing-room-only crowd of young people in a DC theater on Tuesday night by inviting the audience to envision what the country would look like with Republicans in charge.

“Does anybody in this audience think that had the other team won, the war in Iraq would be over right now?” Biden said. “Does anybody think had the other team won, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell would have been repealed?” He followed with similar questions about instituting stricter fuel efficiency standards, installing two female Supreme Court Justices and signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act for women.

Each time the crowd responded with a resounding “No!”

Biden then invited them to envision what will happen if Mitt Romney is elected.

He noted that he never thought the country would be revisiting the debate over contraception in 2012.

“What else will we be revisiting if there’s a Romney presidency and a Republican Congress?” he asked. “Who do you think they’ll put on the Supreme Court? What do you think will happen to your grandparents’ Medicare and Medicaid? How about children and pre-existing conditions, what do you think will happen to them?”

Of course, it was Democrats who cut $500 billion from Medicare with their partisan health care plan.But, since when have facts mattered to this administration?

David commented:

This is the dictionary definition of demagogue and demagoguery. They have no record that they can run (at least no successful record) therefore they they use lies to generate fearful “emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.”

Carbon Pootprint commented:

mcc commented:

But, since when have facts mattered to this administration?

Ain’t that the truth…

Michelle Obama, the nation’s pre-eminent childhood nutritionist, has been arguing that much of the childhood obesity problem is due to the fact that too many urban children live in “food deserts,” lacking access to fresh fruits and vegetables, etc. But, as the New York Times’ Gina Kolata reports today, it isn’t true:

But two new studies have found something unexpected. Such neighborhoods not only have more fast food restaurants and convenience stores than more affluent ones, but more grocery stores, supermarkets and full-service restaurants, too. And there is no relationship between the type of food being sold in a neighborhood and obesity among its children and adolescents. . .

Dylan commented:

mcc commented:

Oh, boy. More lies:

As the presidential campaign swirls around a war for the allegiance of American women, the Obama campaign is relying on an explosive — and highly questionable — charge to draw pro-choice women into the President’s camp: That Mitt Romney would “outlaw abortion” if elected.

The claim first surfaced in a document posted to the campaign’s website Wednesday titled, “5 Things You Need To Know About Mitt Romney.” The last bullet point — which has been retweeted by Barack Obama and his campaign staffers over the past 24 hours— says, “He’d get rid of Planned Parenthood and outlaw abortion.”